Score-keeping device.



W. R. GAITHERE SCORE KEEPING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV- 18. 1915.

1', 1 8 1 ,5 8 9 Patented May 2, 1916.

- St. Louis,

WILLIAM R. GAITHER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

SCORE-KEEPING DEVICE.

Application filed November 18, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. GAITHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at in the State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Score-Keeping Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a score-keeping device especially adapted for use in playing the game of golf, this being the purpose for which I have more particularly devised it; and the description hereinafter contained is therefore directed to the use of the device in playing that game.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention by a perspective view showing one face of the device; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, showing the opposite face, but with all but two of the elastic markers broken away to simplify the showing; Fig. 3 is a section on line 3, Fig. 2, and Fig. 1 is a broken plan view of one of the plurality of elastic-band features of the device provided on its outer end with a ring and numbered tag.

The device comprises a block or body 5, of wood or Other suitable material, preferably of the disk shape illustrated and of convenient dimensions say, about 23; inches in diameter and inch in thickness. About the peripheral edge of the disk are provided a series of radially extending pins or pegs 6, uniformly spaced apart, and of which eleven are shown. A screw-eye 7 may also be provided on the periphery of the block to afford a means for supporting the device in its place of use, as on a golf-bag, whereon it may be fastened by passing a string or small strap through the eye and about the strap ordinarily provided for holding a towel on the bag, or for strapping in the clubs. Each pin represents a number of strokes made by a player in making a hole, beginning with the numeral 2, since the best players usually take at least two strokes to a hole; and two pins are intended to be used for each of the fourth and fifth holes, for good players. Eleven of these pins are provided and are numbered in succession, on one face of the block, 234;- 4:7, 577 5 ,677 ,777 877 977 l077 pin for two for and one This signifies the provision of one two strokes, one for three strokes, four strokes, two for five strokes,

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented May 2, 1916.

Serial No. 62,099.

each for six, seven, eight, nine and ten strokes. Of course, I be increased to better adapt the device for use by beginners, and this may involve suitably increasing the dimensions of the block.

As the preferred means for denoting, by way of marking, the holes to which particular pins apply for showing the number of strokes used for making the respective holes, I provide elastic bands 8 fastened at one end to the block and terminating at their outer ends in'rings 9 carrying numbered tags 10. Nine of these bands are provided on the face of the block, and the tags on their ends are numbered successively from 1 to 9. The arrangement thus far described, involving the numbered pins and the elastic bands, applies to only the face of the block, which bears the word Out to signify the going-out part of the game. The opposite face bears the word In, to signify the coming-in part of the game, and numbers referring to the pins corresponding with the numbers on the out face; and on the in face are also provided nine elastic bands 8, each terminating in a ring 9 carrying a numbered tag 10, all like the bands, rings and tags on the out face, except that the tags are numbered in succession from 10 to 18.

For convenience and simplicity of construction each band 8 is of a length adapting it to be used on both faces of the block, by providing in the latter a central aperture 11 through which the bands are passed and fastened by a plug 12 driven into the aperture to so bend the bunch of bands at their intermediate sections as to cause them to extend in uniform lengths at the opposite faces of the disk.

To use the device the player, or his caddy, carrying it on the golf-bag or in his pocket, or otherwise, after a hole has been made, stretches the respective band and snaps the appropriate ring thereon provided with the tag denoting that hole, over a pin denoting the number of strokes used to make thathole.

If the player does not care to operate the device for showing particular holes relative to which he made the strokes, but only desires to have it show the total of his outgoing and incoming strokes, he may snap any ring over the pin denoting the number of strokes for each hole after making the latter.

the number of pins may The use of my device in playing golf is convenient and avoids all need of a pencil and score-card, requiring to be manipulated in marking the score, or printed for the purpose if misplaced, with consequent loss of time and interference with the game. If the player desires to keep a record of the score, he may always copy it from the device to a score-board after finishing the game.

Obviously, the device may be made for any number of holes, as for nine; or one face of the block may be used by one player and the other for his partner, which would involve releasing all the rings at the end of nine holes, then counting up the scores, and again using the device for keeping the scores of the second half of the game.

I realize that considerable variation is possible in the details of construction thus specifically shown and described and I do not intend to be limited thereto; my intention being in the following claims to claim copiel of this patent my be obtained for live cents each, by addressing the protection upon all the novelty there may be in my invention as broadly as the state of the art will permit.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A score-keeping device for games, comprising a body provided with projecting numbered pins spaced apart, and elastic bands provided with numbers and fastened to the body to be extended into engagement with said pins.

2. A score-keeping device for games, comprising a body provided with projecting numbered pins spaced apart, and elastic bands provided with numbered rings on the outer ends of the bands and fastened at their inner ends to the body to be extended on a face thereof.

WILLIAM R. GAITHER.

In presence of- T. HILL, A. ROSENFELD.

Commissioner of Patents,

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